Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation /

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Includes information on amnesia, anosognosia, Anton's syndrome, autism, Capgras' syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, denial, emotion, Fregoli's syndrome, hypothalamus, Korsakoff's amnesia, Korsakoff's syndrome, limbic system, lying, memory, mirror image syndome, orbitofrontal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hirstein, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
©2005
Series:Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind.
Subjects:
Deception.
Self-deception.
Mythomania.
Psychophysiology.
Delusions.
Delirium.
Denial (Psychology)
Perceptual Defense
Psychophysiology
Delusions
Denial, Psychological
Deception
Delirium
Tromperie.
Déception de soi.
Mythomanie.
Psychophysiologie.
Délire.
Dénégation (Psychologie)
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Zelfbedrog.
Bedrog.
Cerebrale stoornissen.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What is confabulation?
  • Philosophy and neuroscience
  • Confabulation and memory
  • Liars, sociopaths, and confabulators
  • Mind reading and misidentification
  • Unawareness and denial of illness
  • The two brains
  • Confabulation and knowledge
  • Self-deception
  • Our nature.

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